GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| lode | waterway |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |